Just to confirm Dave's suggestion, Solr can do this, yes. If you get particularly down and dirty with your configuration, you can have individual fields in your search collection each with their own set of synonyms (amongst many other things). This is not possible using the native CF9 search and index methods and the setup would most certainly take some learning curve time (perhaps overkill for your problem). You can, AFAIK, setup a global synonym list in CF9 that should work fairly smoothly.
Here's hoping 9.5 brings some extended Solr goodness :) Dominic On 1 May 2011 18:06, Dave Watts <[email protected]> wrote: > >> hi dave, had a look at Google Search Appliance and thought it was only for >> searching our web pages, do you think >> i could possibly utilize it in some way to get the synonyms for my database >> searches? > > Well, as much as I love the appliance, I wasn't really recommending it > for your use, as it's fairly expensive if you were to buy it just to > solve this one problem. I was just pointing out that Solr/Lucene > probably have similar synonym features. > > That said, yes, the appliance can index all sorts of content in > addition to web pages. Database content, filesystem content, CMS/DMS > content, Google Apps content, etc, etc. So, you could very easily > build a search against your MySQL data that would use synonyms - in > fact, we actually do that in the GSA classes I teach. > > If you have any questions about the Google Search Appliance, feel free > to contact me off-list. Fig Leaf Software is a Google Enterprise > partner - and the first certified Enterprise training partner - and we > sell, implement, and train people on the appliance and on Google Apps. > We provide quite a bit of training on behalf of Google, to other > Google Enterprise partners, as well as to the public at large. > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > http://training.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on > GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:344154 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
